UNA Events
The UNA screens films from the Travelling UNA Film Festival at the Avenidas Senior Center in Palo Alto at 2pm on the second Monday of the month. Admission is free.
The UNA Book Club meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month in Mountain View, focusing on United Nations issues and related topics. See the list of upcoming books, dates, and location.
Adopt-a-Minefield was a response to the global landmine crisis where individuals and communities raised money toward demining, providing prostheses, and educating about the problem. Our “Night of a Thousand Dinners” was a citizens' initiative, in which people hosted dinners during a certain period and accept donations. For several years, the dinners were held between March 1, the date on which the Mine Ban Treaty entered into force, and April 4, the date now designated as International Day for Mine Awareness.
The Adopt-a-Minefield campaign has concluded, but nationally it raised over $25 million for mine action, cleared over 1,000 minefields, and assisted thousands of survivors.
Chapter Blog
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House Bill H. R. 2829
by Jane Miller Chai How is it that people in so many countries of the Middle East have had the courage, with little expectation or facility, to stand up against their powerful dictators of many decades? What provided the hope they could succeed and be part of a better world? Individuals felt they had a [...]
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Battling nuclear inertia goes beyond sanctions
by Jeffrey Laurenti “If I had known it was going to be this popular, I would have done this a long time ago,” President John F. Kennedy is said to have joked with aides when enthusiastic audiences cheered his mentions of the partial nuclear test ban treaty in 1963. Fast forward fifty years, however, and [...]
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Long Overdue
by Mary Granholm What do the U.S., Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Naura, Palau, and Tonga have in common? You may be surprised at the answer. They are the only seven countries that have not ratified CEDAW. And what is CEDAW? It’s the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women that was [...]